Takes a firm stand that most songwriters are not recording engineers and that recording should be left to the pros. This article does not say that you can't do both, it just strongly recommends that you stick to your strengths.

This article takes a look at both studio options, home or professional. There are pros and cons to both but as we see as of lately, home studios seem to be taking the upper hand. We have always believed that higher quality could only be found with professional studios but with home studios being able to provide a very similar quality sound with a smaller budget, more people are opting for that option.

Avid Pro Tools remains the standard, cross-platform solution for professional audio work on Macs and PCs, and is still the "can't go wrong" default choice—with good reason. Just bring along a big wallet.

This article is a great choice for being in my scoopit page. It deals with the software I personally will be dealing with as well as my classmates. Jamie Lendino writes the article; who has been a reviewer for digital software since 2005 and is the owner of Sound for Games Interactive. He is also a sound designer himself. The article reviews Protools 10 very well and goes into depth on its flaws and pros. It is still an issue with the MIDI on Protools but the problems are really dealing with affordability. as of now Protools 10 cost $700.00 with a mini Avid box. it will increase in price drastically with a standard and the software does not have all of its upgrades initially. Protools easily counter acts this problem with its professionalism. It is the leading software for professional recording studios. Its gain clipping that has been improved has been very beneficial to audio engineers everywhere. The main point is that this software is the best that’s out their in the sense of recording.

Study links illegal downloading to a positive trend in purchasing music legally. "A new study published by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre has found that illegal downloading doesn't hurt the music industry. After examining the browsing habits of more than 16,000 ...

Illegal downloading actually is suppose to boost sells because the people downloading the music illegally wouldn't have gotten it if piracy downloading sites we're not available and help the spread of music by saying hey you should listen to this song and possible the person might buy the song or album still in a negative effect the record labels don't receive all the income

The music industry has claimed for years that digital music piracy has destroyed their potential to sell physical records in music stores and also hurt their sales of digital downloads. Lobbying groups such as the RIAA and BPI have been pushing for years for harsh penalties and tougher regulations on illegal music downloading. This new study by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, however, actually shows an opposite trend; people who are downloading music illegally are actually more likely to purchase the music in some form. The study also refutes another common argument that streaming services such as Spotify and Pandora hurt music sales as well. The new research claims that streaming services in fact do increase legal digital music sales. Illegal downloading may not be as harmful to the music industry as once believed.

Consumers say they wouldn't buy if it weren't for piracy. Even if there is trespassing of private property rights and copyrights piracy doesn't really dent anyones pocket statistically. Sometimes I research unknown bands and I stream it on youtube to see what they soundalike before running to the store to snag a copy.

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